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File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1975: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]], revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|1975: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] takes retro-temporal pictures of [[Philippe Petit World Trade Center walk (nonfiction)|Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center]], revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines. | ||
||1976 | File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars. | ||
||2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924) | ||2010 – John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924) | ||
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1834: Weaver and merchant Joseph Marie Jacquard dies. He invented the Jacquard loom, an early type of programmable machine.
1958: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1974: High-wire artist Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
1975: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes retro-temporal pictures of Philippe Petit's high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, revealing unexpected correspondences with other timelines.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 inserted into a 1500 x 33,000 km, 24.6 h orbit around Mars.